Indeed, what’s in the sky this week? Spaceblimps, that’s what! Right here in D.C., there are very smart people sending things up into (near) space, as part of a competition that ended in late August with a launch in Camp Spring, Md. Hackerspaces in Space was created by a Chicago group to challenge teams anywhere and everywhere to “send a weather balloon, with payload, into near-space to capture pictures of the Earth’s horizon, to return the payload safely to the ground, and to retrieve the payload.” Local team HacDC was up to the challenge and built the “Spaceblimp” you see in the gallery above.